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THE  NEEDS  OF  THE  CITIES 
An  Indiana  industrial  city  of 
300,000  inhabitants  is  in  desperate 
need  for: 


$25,000  toward  a  $125,000  project  in  a  college  community. 
$10,000  to  $20,000  toward  a  $100,000  structure  to  replace 
an  old  frame  church  in  a  growing  suburban  section. 
$20,000  toward  a  $50,000  community  church  among  shop 
workers  and  railroad  men. 

$12,500  toward  a  community  building  for  the  only  English- 
speaking  Protestant  church  among  15,000  people. 

$5,000  toward  a  $30,000  church  near  the  new  $14,000,000 
motor  car  plant. 

These  needs  are  typical  of  every  city  of  this  size 
and  over,  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  NEGRO  MOVED  NORTH 

The  migration  of  Negroes  to  Northern  industrial 
cities  during  the  war  and  since  has  increased  the  prob¬ 
lem  of  providing  adequate  houses  of  worship  for 
them.  For  instance,  when  the  Home  Board  Survey 
was  made  in  1918  there  was  one  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  for  colored  people  in  all  the  great  industrial 
region  in  and  around  Pittsburgh.  Since  then  enough 
colored  communities  have  been  developed  in  that 
section  to  form  an  Annual  Conference  District.  This 
District  has  been  organized  and  yet  today,  for  all 
this  District,  there  are  but  two  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  buildings. 

New  York,  Chicago,  Detroit — every  large 
Northern  city,  has  similar  needs  in  varying  degrees. 

INDUSTRY  OUTGROWS  THE  CHURCH 

In  one  conference  in  Tennessee  there  are  eight 
industrial  communities  where  the  expansion  is  like 
the  following: 

Nine  years  ago  there  were  only  about  300  people 
here.  Today  there  are  8,000  people  in  the  town 
and  10,000  in  easy  reach.  In  two  years  there  will  be 
8,000  more.  There  are  industrial  plants  sufficient  to 
take  care  of  a  population  of  20,000.  One  plant 
represents  an  investment  of  $3,500,000  and  another 
$4,500,000.  Houses  and  schools  are  being  built.  A 
new  $150,000  Y.  M.  C.  A.  has  just  been  completed. 
The  197  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  are  worshiping  in  a  moving  picture  theater. 
To  build  and  equip  a  church  to  meet  the  present 
needs  and  allow  for  a  normal  increase  for  five  years 
will  cost  $70,000,  exclusive  of  the  lot  which  the  local 
Improvement  Corporation  is  willing  to  donate  if 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  will  provide  one 
half  of  the  cost  of  the  church  building.  The  members 


of  the  church  are  working  people  and  are  not  able  to 
make  large  payments  on  the  church  themselves.  The 
gift  of  the  lot  and  the  opportunity  for  large  service  hang 
in  the  balance. 

The  needs  of  these  eight  industrial  communities  are 
typical  of  hundreds  of  other  communities.  They  are  a 
part  of  Methodism’s  War  Emergency  and  Reconstruction 
obligation. 

I  here  is  a  parish  of  40,000  people  in  an  Ohio  city  of 
208,000  where  the  Centenary  provided  for  additional 
workers,  but  made  no  provision  for  a  building  to  replace 
the  old  and  inadequate  building  erected  in  the  early 
nineties.  Thirty  thousand  people  in  this  parish  are 
unchurched. 

In  a  Connecticut  industrial  community,  where  the 
number  of  families  increased  700  per  cent  during  and 
since  the  war,  $20,000  is  needed  on  a  $60,000  improve¬ 
ment  project  to  enable  Methodism  to  minister  to  its 
share  of  the  20,000  people  in  the  parish,  8,000  of  whom 
are  unchurched. 

In  nearly  every  state  the  story  is  the  same. 

A  CONFERENCE  IN  CALIFORNIA 

A  fruit-growing  and  ranching  community  of  4,000  has  a 
partially  completed  building  of  concrete,  w  hich,  if  finished, 
will  permit  the  uniting  of  the  12  religious  organizations. 

A  rural  community  with  300  Mexicans,  Japanese,  and 
Italians,  needs  adequate  plant. 

In  citrus  irrigation  section  with  rapidly  increasing 
population,  new  church  needed. 

Where  60  industrial  plants  employ  15,000  men,  new' 
church  needed  to  replace  inadequate  wooden  structure. 

In  oil  field,  with  many  Portuguese  and  Japanese, 
adequate  church  building  needed  to  counteract  influence 
of  contemplated  community  dance  hall. 

A  mission  in  a  city  of  a  million  people  needs  help  for 
maintenance. 

Parsonage  needed  for  resident  pastor  in  growing  com¬ 
munity  w  here  new  irrigation  ditch  has  been  dug. 

New  building  to  replace  wooden  structure  in  industrial 
and  manufacturing  parish  of  5,000. 

Church  needed  for  rural  irrigation  community. 

Church  needed  at  a  beach  amusement  resort  with 
8,000  population. 

$100,000  needed  for  work  among  soldiers  and  sailors 
and  for  Americanization,  where  there  are  50,000  soldiers 
and  sailors  and  10,000  foreigners. 


Community  church  building  needed  in  fruit¬ 
growing  town  into  which  large  numbers  of  young 
people  come  to  work  every  summer. 

New  community  building  needed  for  Spanish 
mission  in  a  large  city. 

New  church  building  needed,  rural  community 
with  agricultural,  mining  and  lumber  interests, 
different  nationalities  represented.  The  present 
inadequate  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  the  only 
one  in  the  entire  county. 

A  church  needed  in  town  where  land  boom  is 
rapidly  increasing  the  population. 

New  church  needed  across  the  street  from  state 
university  for  inaugurating  constructive  program 
among  Methodist  students. 

In  county  producing  one  ninth  of  the  world’s 
oil  production,  new  church  needed  to  replace  little 
wooden  edifice,  among  a  transient  population. 

IN  MINNESOTA 

In  one  Conference  district,  our  church  and  the  pub¬ 
lic  school  are  the  only  institutions,  in  38  incorporated 
cities  and  towns,  that  stand  for  either  Protestant  or 
American  ideals.  There  are  26  applications  for  aid  on 
this  district,  only  five  of  which  can  be  granted 
because  of  lack  of  funds.  The  German  language 
and  German  customs  prevail  among  nearly  all  the 
people,  except  those  young  people  who  have  come  un¬ 
der  the  influence  of  our  church.  The  church  build¬ 
ings  erected  in  the  eighties  are  inadequate  for  the 
work  that  must  be  done  among  these  people. 

Workers  and  community  churches  for  foreign  lan¬ 
guage  communities  are  asked  for  from  every  state. 

THE  FULL  STORY 

Space  permits  only  a  suggestion  of  the  Unmet  and 
Unfinished  Needs  of  our  Mission  Fields.  While 
the  other  Boards  in  the  Council  receive  their  full 
guarantees,  this  by  no  means 
covers  their  pressing  needs. 

Shaken  financial,  social  and 
moral  structures  prove  there  is 
a  crisis.  Your  weekly  church 
paper  has  a  chapter  of  the  full 
story  each  week,  as  well  as  the 
continued  telling  of” What  Cen¬ 
tenary  Money  is  Doing.”  Ifyou 
are  not  a  subscriber,  become 
one  at  once.  Ask  your  pastor ! 


Shall  Centenary 
Projects  remain  in 
this  conditionP 


THEY  CAN’T  ALL  GET  IN! — The  tragic  inadequacy  of  this  church  in  Pyeng  Yang,  Korea,  for  its  congregation  is  a  vivid  picture  of  the  need  of  the  whole  Orient 


Total  Centenary  program . $7,981,015 

Annual  Centenary  program .  1,596,203 

Sent  to  field  in  year  ending  October  31,  1920 .  1,082,473 

Amount  short .  513,730 

Need  for  1921  to  carry  Centenary  program  to 

date  . 2,109,933 


LATIN  AMERICA 


Total  Centenary  program . $2,239,240 

Annual  Centenary  program .  447,849 

Sent  to  field  in  year  ending  October  31,  1920  269,396 

Amount  short .  178,453 

Need  for  1921  to  carry  Centenary  program 

to  date .  626,302 


AFRICA 


Total  Centenary  program . 

. $9,097,805 

Annual  Centenary  program . 

.  1,819,561 

Sent  to  field  in  year  ending  October  31,  1920  1,069,380 

Amount  short . 

Need  for  1921  to  carry  Centenary 

program 

to  date . 

9  S00  742 

INDIA  AND  BURMA 


THE  two  greatest  opportunities  in  India  are  with 
the  mass  movements  and  education.  The  great 
mass  movements  are  bringing  into  our  membership 
an  average  of  40,000  people  a  year.  The  urgent, 
immediate  needs  resulting  from  this — one  of  the  out¬ 
standing  opportunities  of  Christian  history — are 
still  not  met  in  any  adequate  manner.  Missionaries, 
teachers,  and  schools  must  be  furnished  if  this 
opportunity  is  not  to  become  a  menace. 

At  least  25  new  missionaries  thoroughly  qualified 
for  important  service  must  be  sent  to  India  in  1921. 

Lucknow  Christian  College  stands  at  the  threshold 
of  its  largest  service.  The  government’s  proposed 
increase  of  the  grant  for  new  buildings  will  depend 
largely  on  our  cooperation.  $50,000  must  be  pro¬ 
vided  that  these  new  buildings  may  be  assured. 
Equipment  and  increased  staff  are  essential. 

The  Centenary  program  contains  fairly  liberal 
amounts  for  the  development  of  India’s  much-needed 
medical  program,  but  it  has  been  impossible  to  send 
the  funds.  They  must  be  furnished  this  year. 

The  new  tuberculosis  sanitarium  in  Ajmer,  which 
is  so  full  of  promise,  is  held  up  for  lack  of  $20,000. 

Hundreds  of  houses  for  Christian  teachers  who 
are  to  be  sent  into  the  villages  must  be  erected. 

Additional  missionary  residences  are  an  immediate 
necessity. 

The  very  complex  and  important  work  of  the 
industrial  institutions  such  as  Nadiad  and  Aligarh 
need  the  equipment  promised. 


MEXICO 

RESENT  conditions  offer  the  most  favorable  oppor¬ 
tunity  ever  presented  to  American  Protestantism  to 
interpret  Christian  brotherhood  and  bring  new  life  to  a 
whole  nation. 

The  greatest  need  and  opportunity  is  education — a 
primary  school  in  connection  with  each  church. 

The  Union  Theological  Seminary,  the  source  of  Chris¬ 
tian  leadership,  must  have  new  buildings. 

Institutional  and  industrial  church  work  is  to  be 
begun  in  Aztecas,  Mexico  City,  and  in  Puebla. 

The  hospital  at  Guanajuato  and  dispensary  work  at 
three  other  points  must  be  developed.  New  churches 
must  be  built. 

SOUTH  AMERICA 

The  hospital  in  Lima,  Peru,  recently  acquired,  the  only 
hospital  in  a  wide  territory,  must  be  paid  for  and  equipped. 

In  Buenos  Aires,  the  Ward  School  is  developing  into 
a  college.  A  new  campus  is  being  purchased  and  $100,000 
is  needed  for  new  buildings. 

Eastern  South  America  is  undermanned.  New  mission¬ 
aries  should  be  sent  at  once. 

In  the  packing  house  district  of  Montevideo,  a  fruitful 
social  service  center  has  been  established.  New  build¬ 
ings  are  necessary  to  fill  the  unique  opportunity. 

Our  influential  schools  in  Chile,  at  Santiago,  Concep¬ 
cion,  and  Iquique,  must  have  buildings  and  equipment. 

Our  schools  at  La  Paz,  Lima  and  Callao  which  are 
training  the  leaders  of  the  nation,  must  have  buildings. 


THREE  great  lines  of  strategy  for  the  evangeliza¬ 
tion  of  Africa,  planned  and  begun  in  the  first 
year  of  the  Centenary,  must  be  carried  vigorously 
forward.  These  lines  of  advance  are: 

1.  Completion  of  four  industrial  and  agricultural 
training  institutes. 

Five  have  been  planned.  Work  on  three  has 
begun.  These  institutions  are  an  indispensable  foun¬ 
dation  for  building  a  Christian  community.  Each  of 
these  institutes  will  cost  approximately  $75,000. 
Present  receipts  give  no  funds  to  go  on. 

2.  Two  new  hospitals,  at  Old  Umtali  and  in  the 
Congo,  must  be  built. 

They  are  urgently  needed  but  are  held  up.  The 
hospital  at  Old  Umtali  will  cost  $25,000,  that  in  the 
Congo,  $10,000. 

3.  New  territory  must  be  occupied  in  an  evangelistic 
advance. 

A  new  line  of  stations  has  been  planned  across 
Africa,  a  most  strategic  line  of  defense  and  offense 
against  the  Mohammedan  invasion  from  the  north. 

Other  new  territory  in  the  Congo  and  in  Portu¬ 
guese  East  Africa  has  been  opened  up  and  must  be 
occupied. 

In  Liberia,  a  major  project  is  the  Cox  Memorial 
Institute,  an  industrial  and  agricultural  training 
school,  vital  to  our  whole  program  in  Liberia. 

Africa’s  greatest  need  is  for  reinforcements. 
Thirty-nine  new  missionaries  were  secured  last  year, 
but  only  20  could  be  sent  to  the  field. 


The  Centenary  has  sent  a  thrill  of  hope  and  expectation  throughout  Methodism  all  around  the  world.  Upon  the  pledged 
word  of  the  home  churct^  advance  steps  have  been  taken,  lives  have  been  offered  and  accepted,  funds  in  the  mission 
fields  have  been  raised.  The  world-wide  opportunity  opens  before  the  church,  waiting  for  the  ,'unds  with  which  to  realize 
the  program. 


Total  Centenary  program . 

$9,156,895 

Annual  Centenary  program . 

1,831,579 

Sent  to  field  in  year  ending  October  31,  1920 

1,143,937 

Amount  short . 

687,642 

Need  for  1921  to  carry  Centenary  program 

to  date . 

9  S1Q  921 

Total  Centenary  program . $16,624,510 

Annual  Centenary  program .  3,324,922 

Sent  to  field  in  year  ending  October  31,  1920 ....  2,868,390 

Amount  short .  556,532 

Need  for  1921  to  carry  Centenary  program 

to  date .  3,881,454 


Total  Centenary  program . $5,700,710 

Annual  Centenary  program .  1,140,142 

Sent  to  field  in  year  ending  October  31,  1920  778,611 

Amount  short .  361,531 

Need  for  1921  to  carry  Centenary  program 

to  date .  1,501,673 


CHINA 

IN  China,  with  her  tremendous  but  uncertain  des¬ 
tiny  in  the  world’s  future,  the  peak  of  Christian 
opportunity  is  reached  right  now. 

Central  in  our  whole  program  and  vital  to  every 
part  of  it  are  the  four  union  Christian  universities  in 
which  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  cooperates. 
Peking,  Nanking,  Fukien  and  West  China  Universi¬ 
ties,  four  of  the  most  influential  institutions  of  learn¬ 
ing  in  the  world,  have  all  begun  strategic  programs 
of  development  and  advance.  Our  share  cannot  be 
held  back. 


These  institutions  are 
for  government  schools 
China  in  a  day  of  social 
chaos.  It  was  possible  to 
sity  program  in  the  first 

Christian  education  is 
listic  approach.  Delay  is 
evangelism. 


to  set  Christian  standards 
and  the  leadership  of  new 
dissolution  and  menacing 
do  very  little  on  the  univer- 
Centenary  year. 

the  most  powerful  evange- 
perilous  to  our  program  of 


The  evangelistic  campaigns  made  possible  by  the 
Centenary  last  year  were  very  successful  and  fruitful. 
Scores  more  of  such  campaigns  are  planned  for  this 
year. 

Central  institutional  churches  in  nine  great  cities 
have  been  promised,  planned,  and  in  some  cases 
building  has  begun.  These  centers  of  evangelism  and 
social  ministry  are  fundamental  to  work  of  great 
influence  in  the  centers  of  China. 

Houses  must  be  provided  for  new  missionaries  and 
additional  missionaries  sent. 


The 


Unroofed 

Nanking, 


hospitals  at  Peking,  Wuhu,  Taian,  Changli, 
Chungking,  Chengtu,  Nan- 
Waiis  in  king,  and  other  points  have 

programs  which  are  being 
developed  but  which  will  be 
crippled  and  halted  if  funds 
do  not  come.  The  China 
Medical  Board  cooperates 
dollar  for  dollar  for  buildings, 
equipment  and  staff  at  Wuhu. 
They  are  ready  to  advance. 
We  must  fulfil  our  part. 


EUROPE 

WAR  EMERGENCY  AND  RECONSTRUCTION 

N  Europe,  War  Emergency  is  still  on,  demanding  the 
expenditure  of  funds  now,  rather  than  ten  years  hence. 
What  America  does  for  Europe  in  the  rebuilding  of  her 
life  and  idealism  is  like  bread  cast  upon  the  waters. 

Immediately  pressing  calls  must  still  be  met  for  relief 
supplies  for  suffering  and  starving  in  Serbia,  Albania, 
Finland,  Esthonia,  Latvia,  and  Austria. 

Beyond  this  relief,  an  enlarged  program  for  Europe, 
reconstructive  because  of  the  devastation  of  war,  construc¬ 
tive  because  of  the  opportunities  of  peace,  has  been  under¬ 
taken  and  is  producing  fine  results.  The  foundations 
already  laid  must  be  built  upon  if  they  are  not  to  be  lost. 

In  France,  the  orphanages  and  schools  cannot  go  forward 
as  planned  without  the  promised  funds.  At  present  the 
necessary  headquarters  in  Paris  for  all  our  work  cannot  be 
purchased. 

In  Austria,  in  addition  to  physical  relief,  there  is  an 
opportunity  for  our  workers  to  go  forward  with  a  very 
large  program  of  religious  education. 

Bulgaria  needs  a  central  church  in  Sofia. 

Serbia — What  shall  we  do  with  the  request  for  a  Farm 
and  Trade  School  for  both  boys  and  girls  to  be  located  in 
Old  Serbia  where  85  per  cent  of  the  population  is  agricul¬ 
tural?  A  Nurses’  Training  Department  is  needed  in  con¬ 
junction  with  the  McPhail  Children’s  Hospital  in  Belgrade. 

In  Albania,  a  marvelous  opportunity  for  constructive 
work  for  a  whole  nation  is  presented  in  the  plea  of  the 
Albania  government  for  the  establishment  of  a  school  of 
higher  education,  including  a  teachers’  training  depart¬ 
ment  and  an  educational  adviser  to  the  government. 

In  Scandinavia,  the  Norway,  Sweden,  and  Denmark 
Conferences  each  have  raised  from  $150,000  to  $200,000 
in  Centenary  pledges  and  are  asking  us  to  meet  them 
dollar  for  dollar  during  the  Centenary  period.  They  ask 
in  addition  that  they  be  assigned  a  distinct  missionary 
field  in  which  their  work  can  be  extended. 

In  Italy,  the  outstanding  thing  is  the  Collegio  in  Rome 
through  which  there  is  an  opportunity  to  influence  in  a 
very  large  way  the  life  of  young  Italy. 

In  North  Africa,  the  District  Superintendent  asks  for 
17  new  missionaries  with  proper  equipment. 

In  Esthonia,  Latvia,  and  Lithuania,  work  is  opening 
rapidly.  A  vigorous  program  is  needed. 


JAPAN,  KOREA,  THE  PHILIPPINES 
AND  MALAYSIA 

CHRISTIAN  victory  or  defeat  in  Japan  affects 
the  destiny  of  the  Orient.  The  educational  op¬ 
portunity  is  great  and  pressing.  Among  the  imme¬ 
diate  needs  are  buildings  and  equipment  for  our 
great  schools,  the  Aoyama  Gakuin  at  Tokio  and  the 
Chinzei  Gakuin  at  Nagasaki,  and  the  Sapporo  and 
Flirosaki  Schools. 

Fourteen  new  churches  must  be  erected  in  1921. 
Community  serving  churches  are  to  be  erected  in 
industrial  centers  at  Hakata  and  Nagasaki. 

KOREA 

Many  new  churches,  to  provide  for  crowding  con¬ 
gregations,  are  imperatively  needed. 

High  Schools  at  Pyeng  Yang  and  Konju  must  be 
enlarged  and  equipped. 

The  Haiju  Hospital,  ministering  to  a  large  popula¬ 
tion,  needs  $10,000  for  building  and  equipment. 

The  pathos  of  children  without  schools,  congrega¬ 
tions  without  churches,  and  the  tragedy  of  unroofed 
walls,  is  a  haunting  fear  which  must  not  become  fact. 

THE  PHILIPPINES 

The  Union  Theological  Seminary,  essential  to 
the  Christian  leadership  of  the  islands,  calls  for  our 
part  of  the  immediate  program,  $50,000. 

Churches  and  village  chapels  must  be  provided  for 
the  expanding  evangelistic  work. 

Two  hospitals  under  construction  must  be  finished. 

MALAYSIA 

The  Anglo-Chinese  school  at  Singapore  is  expand¬ 
ing  into  a  university.  It  already  has  2,000  students. 
$90,000  must  be  supplied  this 
year  in  this  influential  under¬ 
taking. 

THE  NETHERLANDS  INDIES 

New  hospitals,  of  which  the 
Dutch  government  pays  three 
fourths  of  the  cost,  will  be 
built  when  our  share  is  fur- 
1  nished.  These  meet  a  des- 
|  perate  need. 


Outdoor  Evangelism 
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There  are  Unfinished 
Projects  as  well  as 
Unmet  Needs 


HOME  FIELD 
UNMET  NEEDS 
AN  UNCHURCHED 
COUNTY 

ONE  county  in  the 
state  of  Washington 
contains  1,146,847  acres, 
90  per  cent  of  which  are 
under  cultivation,  with  a 
population  of  85,000  peo¬ 
ple.  It  has  107  school  dis¬ 
tricts  (23  of  w  hich  have 
two  or  more  rooms) ,  containing  22,000  people, 
without  religious  services  of  any  sort.  And 
yet  all  these  communities  are  easy  of  access. 

METHODIST  STUDENTS  DRIFTING 

$1,000,000  is  needed  immediately  for  work 
among  Methodist  Episcopal  students  in  tax- 
supported  educational  institutions. 

In  one  area  in  the  Middle  West  there  are 
two  state  colleges,  two  state  agricultural 
colleges  and  four  great  normal  schools  with  a 
large  per  cent  of  the  students  from  Methodist 
homes.  Very  little  is  being  done  by  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  to  provide  the 
religious  training  which  the  state  does  not 
furnish. 

LEADERS  NEEDED 

Money  is  needed  at  once  for  training 
ministers  and  other  workers  to  do  the  tasks 
which  the  Centenary  proposed. 

Twenty-five  per  cent  of  our  ministers  are 
“supplies,”  the  majority  being  in  rural  com¬ 
munities.  There  can  be  no  progress  until  men 
and  women  are  trained  definitely  for  rural 
work. 

The  lack  of  trained  leaders  among  foreign¬ 
speaking  people  is  lamentable.  And  immigra¬ 
tion  increases  daily ! 

GOODWILL  INDUSTRIES 

Fifteen  additional  cities  are  asking  for 
Goodwill  Industries,  where  the  industrial  un¬ 
fit  may  have  a  chance  to  become  self-support¬ 
ing  and  regain  their  place  in  the  life  of  the 
community,  the  while  they  are  taught  to  know 
Jesus  Christ  as  Friend  and  Savior. 

GOSPEL  MESSENGERS 

Money  is  needed  to  send  preachers  to  the 
logging  camps  and  to  the  coast  guards,  who 
are  largely  neglected  by  the  church. 

Evangelistic  literature  for  both  English  and 
foreign-speaking  non-churchgoers  is  needed  to 
counteract  vicious  anti-Christian  propaganda. 


WHY  NEEDS  ARE  NOT  MET 

T>  ECAUSE  only  72  per  cent  of  the  Centenary 
-U  pledges  were  paid  during  1920,  a  serious 
condition  confronts  the  Centenary  program 
in  the  United  States. 

For  the  year  1920,  it  was  possible  to  appro¬ 
priate  the  full  maintenance  program  and  only 
50  per  cent  of  the  building  program. 

For  the  year  1921,  it  has  been  possible  to 
appropriate  the  full  maintenance  program  for 
1921,  and  only  another  35  per  cent  of  the  1920 
building  program. 

If  the  income  warrants  it  by  June  1,  1921, 
the  remaining  15  per  cent  of  the  1920  building 
program  will  be  appropriated. 

This  leaves  the  1921  building  program  with¬ 
out  a  single  dollar. 

Church  projects  just  started  must  stand  in 
a  half-completed  condition  for  over  a  year 
unless  more  money  is  available. 

In  addition,  applications  for  aid  amounting 
to  over  $9,000,000  have  been  received  by  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  and  Church  Exten¬ 
sion  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Every  one  of  these  applications  represents 
a  Kingdom  need  as  urgent  and  pressing  as 
those  in  the  regular  Centenary  and  War 
Emergency  and  Reconstruction  programs. 

The  payment  of  Centenary  pledges  each 
month  in  full  will  enable  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  to  fulfil  the  great  mission 
advertised  to  all  the  world. 

It  will  also  help  Methodism  to  keep  moving 
forward. 

The  Home  Mission  Field  needs  your 
sympathy,  your  prayers,  and  your  money. 

Help  to  meet  the  Unmet  Needs  now,  when 
it  will  count  most  for  the  Kingdom  of  God 
in  the  United  States! 


Methodist  Episcopal  Gliurcli 

Committee  on  Conservation  ami  Advance 
740  Rush  Street 
Chicago,  Illinois 


